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It occurred to me that it may be good idea to keep some portions of your weapons and ammo stocks in different locations within your house. Say there was a fire that damages a portion of your house, but not all of it. If all your weapons and ammo were in the same place -- the part that burned -- you'd be totally without.

What think ye?

BTW, I consider a vehicle to be a valid secondary location for this topic, as long as it's legal.
 
Let it burn, inform the Firefighters what quanity ammo and where it's located. And get out of thier way. They will likely position the engine between your house and those of your neighbors and evac a few.

If your home is up in flames, nothing matters but getting you and everyone else OUT safe unharmed. You can always replace the losses. With that said, I try to maintain just one box next to my go grab bag.

So on the way out of the burning home we dont have to worry about it.
 
i am not going to worry about it. that is what i pay insurance for. i have a couple of (family heirlooms) guns that i would be very sad to loose. but who knows where and when a fire will break out. and i may be just as likely to be in the one spot where you keep your good guns as not. just get a safe, insure them, and hope for the best. and like H.S. says, inform the fire dept where the ammo (and / or gunpowder) is, and how much, for their safety.
 
Mine are scattered around the place. Some locked away, others hidden, a few in plain sight. A burglar would never know if he had gotten them all, and more than likely he wouldn't. As I believe I've mentioned before, the one time I was burgled, the burglar walked right past several guns I had left out in plain sight, and took only a coffee mug of loose change and a fake ring.
 
I particularly like where Det. Lassiter on "Psych" stored one of his guns. They had swept his house and removed seven hidden guns, but still missed the one - submerged in the bowl of peanuts! I'm thinking I may try that on our dining table.

In general I'm with the "Duke of Doubt" - I've got guns in so many places they can't find them all unless they want to sort through dirty laundry, among other things.
 
Keep fire extinguishers in several locations around the house

  • Keep your guns, all secure in one spot, save for the bedroom arsenal for HD.
  • Prepare your home to be fire resistant and don't leave the curling iron on all day.
  • Take an inventory of, and get a Personal Articles insurance policy for, the valuables in your home.
 
Why "within"?

It makes sense to store some elsewhere if possible. Family member's home, rented storage locker, whatever works for you. Not just for fire.
 
I think burrial is a bad idea unless you know what you are doing and put some serious resources into protection.
 
Quick mental inventory comes up with six different locations in the house, and most of my firearms aren't stored in the house.......:cool:
 
Acera: "Buried on your property in the woods........"

Or, NOT on your property in the woods. Most of my state is heavily forested, and much of that land is held by a comparatively small number of large organizations which spend little or no time on that land. Much of that land is unsuitable for the activities engaged in by those organizations. You could hide practically anything in the Maine woods. Heck, some of us make a hobby of exploring for missing aircraft. Aircraft! Tons of them!

If it isn't on your land, and you have no legal right to access the land it's on, depending on the particular legal context, it may, arguably, not be in your possession.
 
I have this picture of a bunch of guys driving "deep" into the forest with their GPS recievers and planting mosins.... and leaving the waypoint on their GPS so they can find 'em again. Seems funny for some reason.

I knew a scuba diver who built a sealed box to store some stuff and anchored it off the coast of CA in a place he was SURE he could find again.

Don't be too clever...
 
Ed Ames, From the increasing amount of public auctions for back due rent of outside storage spaces at a exponetal rapid rate... your stored ammuntion will vanish under a 50 dollar bid because you defaulted on your rent.

Outside storage are for those with too much stuff. IMHO.

With that said, the firefighters will need to know my Gasoline and Desiel fuel quanity should my shed be threatened by a house fire. Said shed has the potential of creating a 50 meter ring of flames that will basically napalm all on the area.

We get grass fires from time to time.

And why should GPS be funny? It's a new way of ... nut hiding so the squirrel can find it straight away. Hopefully those coordiantes dont leak out due to mismanagement of information and have other housecats trying to dig up said nut.

I have literally been white-ed out on the interstate up by sturgis during winterstorms and kept the rig on the pavement via GPS within 30 feet feeling my way along the gravel shoulder. Made all the different to get out of the "River" of roaring whiteout and climb the hill to safety.

I used to keep a stash in a greyhound bus station in a major city and 100 dollars in a sock. Should I have been stranded, hop a grey hound straight to said station, insert key into locker and be properly outfitted and equippted all over again.

Those days are gone forever. We have a brave new future.
 
Ed Ames: "Don't be too clever..."

Oh, I know. I'm not experienced at hiding stuff in the woods, but I AM experienced at finding other people's stuff in the woods. Man.
 
Sounds like you need another safe for your ammo.

"Whats in the safe?"
"Guns."
"Whats in the other safe?"
"More guns."
"Well then what's in THAT safe?"
"Ammo. For the guns."
 
IMO using a storage locker because you have too much stuff is stupid. So is not paying your rent or removing your stuff when you know there are valuables on the line.

Storage units should be used like safe deposit boxes. A typical use I have seen time and again is for a business to put a big fire safe full of business continuity resources (backups, necessary equipment, document copies, etc) so that, in the event that the business burns down, there is a starting point for resumption of operations. There are other uses but that is the closest to what we are talking about.
 
Duke of Doubt wrote:
Or, NOT on your property in the woods.
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That has been a topic of discussion also. There a few country cemeteries around our land and within a few yards behind them, you are almost invisible. Not much of a chance of that land being developed/logged/disturbed in the near future. Power line easements are easy to find also.


I think burrial is a bad idea unless you know what you are doing and put some serious resources into protection.
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Well my thought has been to keep it simple, and remote. It's easy to protect the contents from damage. Remoteness, proper site selection, limiting knowledge of others of your plan, and few other common sense things can make it a success. Also a good plan to drive searchers with a metal detector crazy is good if you expect snoopers:)
 
Not really, jake. I intend to be buried with a few guns so that, in time of need, my relatives or friends can dig me up, ungrease the guns and have them to use.
 
jakemccoy wrote:
Has anybody here ever dug up a buried gun in time of need?
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No, but I have done a test case. Planted one, waited a few weeks. Before the start of deer season I asked the guys at camp to find it. With them being in the woods cutting lanes, setting feeders, and the like I thought it would be a good test for my stash. The $100 bill was as much an incentive as a chance to beat me at the game. No one found it, I dug it up the next year, everything fine.




Now if you ask some eastern Europeans that same question, you might get positive responses from the late 40's and early 1950's regarding WWII weapons.
 
The "Black Pathfinders" and Organizatziya have been doing that in Russia for many years. Scouting old battlefields and camps for usable or repairable firearms and explosives, and putting them to use against one another. Suddenly put military history on a cash-paying basis.
 
Not really, jake. I intend to be buried with a few guns so that, in time of need, my relatives or friends can dig me up, ungrease the guns and have them to use.
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Wonderful multi-purpose. After they use you for target practice, they can set you up as a decoy, too. Not to mention a good battle position.

"How many are there?"

"Five. Three in that big square fox-hole, two over by the....no wait....there's six! I didn't see that skinny one leaning against that tree over there!"
 
Superlite27: ""Five. Three in that big square fox-hole, two over by the....no wait....there's six! I didn't see that skinny one leaning against that tree over there!""

Now THAT was a smile.

I'd actually fully approve.
 
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